Deferred Rendering

Hey Catalin I’m trying to work deferred shading into my program but for some reason (btw, I’m just using the same g-buffer setup) after I set the render targets, clear them using the ziggyware renderer, and draw my object; I immediately “resolve” them to null and I save the GetTexture()’s to pngs so I can see if they’re rendering correctly. But, they are always blank, which I don’t understand. I even rendered my object with basic effect to make sure my world/view/proj matrices were setup correctly, then switched over to deferred rendering and I always get a black screen and all the render targets are blank (well the depth buffer turns out white, and the color and normal turn out opaque black). It just feels like i’ve been running through my code a hundred times and don’t see the issue…

Any help? Thanks Catalin

Ahh! I figured out my problem (after writing a whole test application to debug sanely in) it came from one line of code:

GraphicsDevice.RenderState.DepthBufferEnable = true;

Calling that line of code seems to cause the frame to draw blank for the first frame (then everything would turn back to normal) BUT since I had spritebatch running I ran that line every frame to reset everything from spritebatch which in turn caused every frame to turn out empty.

Thanks anyways Catalin and btw amazing tutorial my friend!